The Leonardo — Attraction in Salt Lake City

We can safely say Leonard Museum is spectacular and one of a kind experience for business travelers and the locals who resides in Utah.

The facility is clean with good lighting. Ken Sanders Bookstore is in the same building as the museum on the first floor, right where you enter the museum entrance that you visit the front desk counter to purchase tickets.

Children 3-12 is $10. Seniors 65+ ticket is $12. Adults $16.

We checked out the bookstore. It's neat they have rarity of books and publications.

The main floor has unique blue background with a 2 engine aircraft. You can take pictures on the aircraft base. Being it is a display for photography, naturally, visitors and their children needs to respect, stay cautious and being careful of the aircraft model.

On the main floor, there is a neon blue FLIGHT sign, the short tunnel is cool, the wallpaper is so fun-neat for children and families. The neon lights made it interesting to walk through. Once you're at the end of the tunnel, there is a 1950-1960's living room model with two artificial children sat in front of the old boxy television set. The TV plays the old theme of yester-years of what's related to the astronauts and news. On the wall, there is a 8x10 wood framed John F. Kennedy picture displayed next to an old fashioned sundial clock. There are two bookshelves on each side of the room of old book displays.

By the neon blue FLIGHT tunnel sign, there is a LEGOs room in which your family and children build your Legos for the fun of it. When done assembling the Legos, families and children put the Legos back in each plastic bins based on color sorting for other visitors and their families to experience Lego building. There is a beautiful and professional Cathedral of Madeleine church Lego model. There is also a large black KSL Lego Triad Center model set. The Legos are put together by professional Legos sculpturists. Fun color paper lamps hung overhead.

You take the escalator to the 2nd floor. On the walls, it's dim so you can get the ultimate experience of the futuristic feel of different color lightings and robotic voices throughout the hall. For a second, we felt we were in another world of the future, it felt that way. And we all know robotic equipment is already here and it might not be launched and spread as quickly as hoped. But it is here and will unfold in near future.

There is a Science lab room that you can check out the different artificial bones to compare human bones, animal bones, etc.

There is an area for children to check through each cardboard organizer. Paper printed pages of animal drawing heads, bodies, feet or tails. Your children get to mix and match or creative their own fun by mismatching the animals they are cutting-gluing the pieces together. Very fun ! And well thought to aim to keep little people busy.

On the 2nd floor, there are a few PC stations that your children can get hands-on experience using the mouse, to play games for a short time or to draw using the mouse, you can see what your children is doodling.

Leonardo Museum is one of the coolest museums we have visited. We traveled often and lived in many different states; and have stepped foot to many historical museums and children museums in past years. Hands down --- Leonardo Museum in downtown Salt Lake City is one of the nicest museum you can visit, it is all here.

For someone, me, who has 4.4 million Google reviews, to write a high rating-impressive review, you know this museum is well worth your time and fun.

• Side Note: The 30 something year old gals at the cash register needs training as to how to serve anyone that walks in for a visit. They were not friendly and had a negative attitude. This MUST BE correctly at once if I was the management head. Their presentation on behalf of The Leonardo is highly important how they interact and accept payments. They serve the public but fell short. An attitude does not belong if they're to be employed and stay employed working for The...

Not worth the price of admission, especially as an adult. I do not feel like I got what I paid for. It was very disappointing, considering there are so many other museums in the area that give a much better experience for your money at around the same price.

Most of this museum just felt unfinished. The upstairs was blocked off and there were several spaces that were just empty, like the Black voices exhibition space which looks like they were either clearing it out or had not put any of the exhibit items in there yet. There were just a few random posters still left up and an empty room. Maybe we just got unlucky and they were changing exhibits, but it just didn't feel like there was enough to see. There also weren't very many interactive elements, and most that existed were just for littler kiddos. Not great for date night.

It took us all of 25 mins to walk through. Most of the exhibits that were there felt a bit run down and could use some love. They were also dirty and felt "sticky"/ "filmy." No one was cleaning anything between patrons, like the joysticks at the flight simulator area. They didn't even have hand sanitizer scattered around; eventually I stopped at the bathroom to wash my hands and stopped touching the interactive elements (the few there were for all ages, anyway) after that because many of the surfaces felt gross.

Like another review stated, I was also hoping for more exhibits about DaVinci, given the name. The flight museum part was the only tangentially related thing. I was also expecting more art to be exhibited.

The "featured exhibit" they had going when we went was an AI exhibit that involved a few computers set up to play with chat GPT, and a room you could walk through that was essentially a projected Screensaver with an AI voice reading poetry. There should have been a photosensitivity warning because there are a lot of flashing colors and lights. They did this "show" at the top of the hour, but it wasn't really that interesting and I feel like we had waited to see it for nothing and could have easily skipped it and left earlier had we known what it was. Several people just got up and walked out.

There were very few people there for a Saturday in the summer, which was rather telling. I remember the Leonardo having much more compelling events and experiences years ago, but I'd never gotten the chance to go. Now they seem like a shadow of their former selves and I don't see myself going back.

I would suggest just saving your money and skipping the Leonardo. There are more interesting museums to go to as an adult for date night, and more interactive ones for people with kids. This one feels like they haven't quite found their audience and are struggling to find or afford interesting exhibits and are just cobbling together...

I work at a supportive housing facility for a local nonprofit, and recently escorted a group of our residents to the Leonardo for a Saturday outing. My crew were all adults over 40. We all thoroughly enjoyed the exhibits, with the possible exception of the hylozoic veil thing which wasn't functioning properly. What made this a 5 star experience was definitely the staff. Every staff member we interacted with, from the front desk crew to the ones minding the exhibits had welcoming, friendly attitudes. All communicated clearly with us, offered their full attention and service, and even took time to visit with us and have short conversations since they weren't too busy that Saturday. I believe you can FEEL the culture of an organization out by interacting with it's people. And these people clearly have a healthy work culture and enjoy their job. I'm sure it gets crazy in there when they have 200 kids running around on a field trip. But, for example, Manda, up by the hylozoic veil exhibit on 2nd floor, took the took the time to teach us about the exhibit offering her knowledge and her friendly personality. Three other staff members, I believe one was named Haley or Hannah, and another named Sophia, cake to help us use the elevator for one of my friends who is in a wheelchair. We were impressed by the big C-131 and the MIG planes in the Flight exhibit. We loved the little rolling robots and the flight simulator, and we enjoyed making paper flowers with the lady on the 2nd floor who inspired us with a good conversation. This is a great local museum, a fun and intercative way to spend an afternoon, and it's good for kids and...